Education

2019	Ph. D. (University of Cape Town), Advisor: W. A. Horowitz “pQCD energy loss and thermal field theory in small systems“
2016	MSc. (Cum Laude) (University of Cape Town), Advisor: W. A. Horowitz “Short path-length pQCD corrections to energy-loss in the quark gluon plasma“
2015	BSc. (Hons) (University of Pretoria)

Selected Publications

Full list on inSpire

Wilke van der Schee, IK, Govert Nijs, Kumail Ruhani, Ishtiaq Ahmed, and Shahin Iqbal. “Three models for charged hadron nuclear modification from light to heavy ions” (Sept. 2025). arXiv: 2509.04299 [nucl-th].
IK. “JEWEL on a (2+1)D background with applications to small systems and substructure” (Mar. 2023)arXiv: arXiv:2303.14166 [nucl-th].
IK, M. Lushozi. “Gluon radiation from a classical point particle: Recoil effects”. arXiv:2109.01736[hep-ph]. Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 10, 886.
IK, M. Lushozi, L. D. McLerran, and G. Yu. “Distribution of Nuclear Matter and Radiation in the Fragmentation Region”. In: (Sept. 2020). arXiv: 2009.05680[hep-ph]. Phys. Rev. C. 103 (2021) 044908
IK, K. Roy, F. Salazar, B. Schenke, and R. Venugopalan. “Inclusive prompt photon-jet correlations asa probe of gluon saturation in electron-nucleus scattering at small x”. In: (Aug. 2020). arXiv: 2008.04372[hep-ph]. JHEP 01 (2021) 052
S. Mogliacci, IK, and W.A. Horowitz. “Geometrically Confined Thermal Field Theory: Finite Size Corrections and Phase Transitions”. In: (July 2018). arXiv: 1807.07871[hep-th]. Phys. Rev. D. 102 116017 (2020).
IK and W.A. Horowitz. “Short path length corrections to Djordjevic-Gyulassy-Levai-Vitev energyloss”. Phys. Rev. C 100, 024913 2 (2019). arXiv: 1511.09313[hep-ph].

Research experience

Sep. ’22 – Aug. ’23	Postdoctoral Researcher, Galician Institute for High Energy Physics (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Jan. ’20 – Aug ’22	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Nuclear Theory (University of Washington)
Aug. ’19 – Dec ’19	Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Feb. ’19 – Jul. ’19	Visitor, CERN (postdoctoral scholar, iThembaLABS)

Selected Talks

An incomplete list of talks I’ve given with their slides. Please see my CV for a complete list. I don’t guarantee that anything in these talks is correct, but please feel free to email me if you’d like to discuss them!

Sep. 2024 (Inveted Plenary) Hard Probes, Nagasaki, Japan. Title: “Jets: in-medium parton evolution with finite size effects“
Jun. 2023 (Invited Plenary) Initial Stages, Copenhagen. Title: “Jet quenching and heavy flavor dynamics in small systems: theoretical overview”
Feb. 2022: (Invited) Triangle Nuclear Theory Colloquium, Title: “Matter and Radiation in the Fragmentation Region” (Duke University, USA)